things get moving and the players make their way to the stage and we'll bring that to you. >> thank you so much. heather holmes and mike down in the center of the activity. mike another one of those guys lifelong giants fans. he lives it, he breathes it, and we're going to continue our parade coverage. >> we are, we're taking a short break. back with the world series fans in san francisco. ah, focus group. so what are we testing here?

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welcome to this special edition of ktvu channel 2 news at noon. we're taking a look at a picture -- i don't think we've seen this. >> gasia and sal, we're looking at an incredible sight. you can say it's amazing. but when you stop and think about this, it's incredible how many people are there and i'm with mike mibach and some of the estimates have it at about 100,000 people. i think that number is gonna get pushed up a little bit. it seems like more than that. we do a great parade every

year, the chinese new year parade and they talk about 100,000 people. >> that number came from gavin newsom yesterday. he heard 100,000 plus. i really think that me back's call of 500,000 is more accurate. >> could be. there's peter mcgown again. he's with his family members. that guy is responsible for helping keep the giants in san francisco and helping get the ballpark built. we go back to mike mibach. >> reporter: yeah, mark, we just saw the marching band come in here.

sal -- >> bring it, mike. >> reporter: okay. that's why you are over there. we're here. [ laughter ] >> don't make him feel any worse than he does. >> reporter: good point. you mentioned it earlier in the broadcast. we're talking about the history of the giants, 1926, so close, game 7. '02 another game 7 and for us, growing up, it was hard to believe that we were having this type of parade in this great city of san francisco. and going into the season, i was telling mark, yeah, this is our year. i say that every year. but i meant it. as san franciscans i think they say that deep in their heart. and when it comes to this, you are looking at these aerial shots of the civic center plaza, you realize that it's coming true, it's an

unbelievable feeling. the first thing i thought about and i was lucky enough to watch it with family and friends, my father and -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: people in their 80s and 90s. people who have brought their infants here. i know you said walking in -- >> i was on my way here and a man stopped me at a red light and said, you know, have you felt happier the last couple of days? i said yeah, ever since the giants won the world series. there is such an a -- such a sense of excitement. it's really something to see. when you look out here, mike, and we're standing here and we

can see the entire crowd here at civic center plaza. people are excited. they are happy. >> reporter: and it's been like that at the ballpark. i was there when they were six games out, like, 30 to go and they took the padres down and beat them and no one believed in them when they took on the braves. no one believed they took down the phillies and nobody believed they could believe the texas rangers. what did they do? they took them down in five games. if they lost game 5, we would be down at at&t park. instead we're out in front of city hall watching this parade come right toward us. >> that's right. >> reporter: after newsom makes some remarks, then governor schwarzenegger will be here,

and then it goes to larry bare and bruce bochy and some of the players. i don't know which players will be speaking. >> reporter: they really want to thank the fans that really helped cheer them on. get them to this world series. we were talking earlier. i wondered -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: you saw the people and it's -- with the beer and it's just awsome. >> reporter: i like the beer. maybe not. the boss wouldn't like that. brian wilson, we saw him near fred inglis. he's fired up. i know tim lincecum loves

living in the city and there's peter mcgown, so instrumental in keeping the giants here and building that ballpark. ground shots there from civic center plaza as the play continues into this area. they are coming in. for those of you who don't know the area, they are getting off the cable cars they came in, making their way into city hall and be greeted by the mayor. hang out in there. look at that shot. >> reporter: there are going to be a lot of horse people. a lot of people with hurt necks because everybody is trying to stretch out and see the players. you could tell something was happening. we do see the cable cars.

so it's probably a few minutes before the players make their way in. what's so interesting, you have all of the people here on the balconies at city hall. >> reporter: with their families. you got the -- the crowd inside the courthouse keeps getting bigger and opening the window, leaning out. it's just what you imagined, at least for me growing up here, and to be here again so close to the action, an unbelievable moment. the one thing the giants' fans lon about this team is their character. now you've got this group of guys who pulled together. not that the '02 team didn't hold together. but the city so diverse and

then you compare it, it's almost too perfect. >> reporter: it is. it is. it's funny. yes, they do it bigger in texas. but i think we do it better in san francisco. >> reporter: i like that line. you are a giant at heart. >> reporter: i am. it's so funny. aubrey huff, i grew up in the same town and to see someone that you went to school with go on and company butch a star and achieve so much from this little town of about 12,000 people is really, really incredible. >> reporter: the same goes for me growing up here, against pat burrell. i didn't play baseball against him. i did play football against him. and to see him develop into an amazing football player and to come home and play with the black and orange. i would love to know -- i would love to ask them how he would

like to compare the world championship here. i'm sure it's unbelievable for him. but if he had to pick one, maybe the local team, i would hope. >> reporter: you can see this crowd is getting more and more electric. they are starting to wave their flags. but they are also really, really anxious. i think they anxious to get a glimpse of the players, to see them and let them know how proud they are. like tim lincecum and cody ross. >> reporter: we saw that shot of brian sab -- of brian sabian. when the podium gets underway, he will had get a standing ovation for the steam he put

together, especially in that second half of the year, for developing the talent he did in the minor league system. this is our first world series championship parade in san francisco. i'm expecting this -- i don't want to get ahead of ourselves. >> go ahead. >> reporter: but we could be having more of these parades. >> reporter: we hope so. we hope so. when you look out in the crowd, you see a wide range of giant fans, little kids, moms, dads, grandmothers, and i think that shows how much appeal this team has. >> reporter: mark, and gasia, i know you guys are in oakland. i wish you were out here. the same for sal. it's an honor to be out here to be with heather and talk about

this parade coming up. it's fun. it's amazing. >> i'm happy for you being the real native san franciscan to be out there. i know that you and i and all of us natives who grew up with a chip on our shoulder because the giants' never won anything. we're gonna be right back in a moment.

that's the trophy there. >> that excites all giants' fans who maybe didn't think -- >> there he is. >> and why not? >> the world champion san francisco giants. >> i've been saying it as much as i can. i've been tweeting it, putting it on my little blog and there he is holding -- you know, i'm just not used to seeing that. i think i have seen that in the yankees' parade but never here on market street in san francisco. >> well, the oakland as won it four times on the east side of the bay. this is the first ever for the san francisco side. of course the as won it three in a row and then in '89 but san francisco had always been the team in the bay area without a world series title.

no longer, gasia. >> that's right. >> but that manager, he took some criticism because, you know, part of it was that he came from san diego, a manager of the padres, and he came here and -- and there's brian wilson. >> i love the hair. >> absolutely. >> does he hit in here or what? >> i think he's perfect. i can see him walking down market any day. >> he kind of became a national figure, too, when, he he had those orange spikes. and people started realizing, hey, he's -- he likes the media attention. he's perfect for san francisco. >> you talk about east bay fans, maybe fans of the as. this is not just san francisco. we're talking bay area wide. i'm sure there are a lot of families who pulled their little ones out. heather, mike, have you been able to talk to --

>> there's buster posey and his young wife. i like how his cable car just says "buster." >> yeah, you don't need the posey. i remember when they signed him and i thought that name just sounds great. like johnny bench, buster posey. let's get mike me back and heather back in. i want to talk about the outlying areas, the people that came from the outside to come in. and the mayor said it yesterday, it's not just a san francisco event. i would go so far as to call it a northern california event and a bay area event. heather, mike, if you would like to chime in. >> reporter: i would love to chime in. i came in from the north bay

with one of the photographers and he said, hey, look to the right. and then up the bridges, you saw giants' fans. it's a northern california event. >> i don't think really just northern california. i think we would find people from southern california and from beyond the state of california. i mean, the giants do have a really big following. if you look at them in texas, there were a lot of people that we interviewed during that series that were from other states. i think they just got this great appeal, mark and gasia. >> just a moment ago -- that was aaron rowand. but right before that, you saw a man signing an autograph -- there's tim lincecum. but jeffly liner, he was the

mvp with the giants, he's with the organization. a lot of former giants. not just the veterans like mccovey and mays but j it. snowe, from the >> you just talk about the pride and the happiness. i have seen more people cry over the giants in the past few days than ever before and it --

i don't know why i'm surprised but i -- i remember mike mibach interviewed a woman. i forget after which game and she -- all of a sudden she was overcome. i thought oh, my god. we take this in in our own way and she was in tears. and it just brings home -- >> tears of joys. >> not like the other tears we've seen in the years past. it was so emotional and so beautiful. tears of joy, tears of joy, everything today. let's listen in. >> there's mike murphy, the equipment man, who has been with the team since '58. he was a batboy way back when. i tell you, that guy is revered and loved by everybody. >> and there's uribe! >> there's juan uribe who had had had so men hits for the giants and the pennant that won

it for the giants, 3-2. >> i will never forget that. it made that citizens bank park stadium quiet. and then they brought in lincecum and it was never the same and that's when i started to believe, if we can beat the phillies, they have a chance. >> yeah. a lot of people thought on paper philadelphia looked like the strongest team. sometimes it's not about that. it's about the chemistry and it's about when you -- the scary thing, sal, i thought the giants were getting stronger as the playoffs continue. they mowed texas down. took them down in five games. in fact, chris berman is the only member of the national media i heard predict who could do that. >> they all kind of got on the

bandwagon very, very late. >> the giants did it in five. >> absolutely. shut them down. you realize how close they came to shutting out the rangers in three of those games. no team has been shut down since 1966, when the dodgers' pitching staff -- there's matt cain who, by the way, didn't give up as much as even a single earned one in the entire postseason. gosh, what a pitching staff. >> you would like to see because he was kind of the hard- luck pitcher for san francisco. he pitched some great games and didn't gent a lot of -- and didn't get a lot of run support. >> i don't think anybody really remembers that. why am i talking about that? >> he's a winning pitch. >> and so many fans have already put it on fast forward and are talking about this team is set up for years to come, the young pitching staff, the

nucleus, for years to come. there's freddy sanchez. he played on the pittsburgh pirates for years and they are stellar dwellers, gosh, for most of the time and coming over to a winner. he's feeling great and so is everybody on this very special occasion. >> am i the only one who gets nervous when i people leaning? people doing whatever they can to catch a glimpse of the parade or sevenly when the ceremony there at civic center starts -- >> that's brian wilson. heather referred to him as a rock star. >> yeah. >> he's one of the guys willing to get out of the cable car and interact with the crowd. >> look at this. i thought they were gonna jump.

>> you know call him "the machine," right? after the game, after the game when they won it, he was out in the crowd, he was yelling at people in texas stadium yelling "you are the machine! "you are the machine! ." >> we're gonna hear a lot from the players and a lot from the team and just so you know, president obama actually called the team after the win and said, you know what? i got two things, number one, an invitation to the white house as it's custom marry, number two, is there magic behind the beard? is it real? so even the president wants to know. so it look like the team might be heading to washington, d.c. >> that's nice to see the players get out and really put it together after coming back from his appendectomy.

he came back, some said a little too early, because he wasn't himself. but this guy was an ignitor to the giants' offense. i really like seeing the players get out of the cable cars and intersperse with the fans this might be a real opportunity up, close and personal what they've met with the people in the bay area. >> and the giants have a great latino player history. been on a field a few times warming up with them and sergio came to this country and you could hear them speaking in spanish. and felipe alou.

it draws all kinds of people. very proud of that. >> absolutely. again, they tip fi the bay area -- typify the bay area. let's go back to heather holmes. there's buster posey again. and mike mibach, very near where the giants will be taking center stage. you will had hear from the players themselves very shortly after we continue our parade coverage. >> reporter: as we saw brian wilson get off that cable car, fans went berserk. this is what i'm feeling. i feel like this team is bringing the world championship to san francisco. >> they are delivering it to the city. it's great to see them getting out of the cable cars. they realize this is the end of

the parade. there's steve perry -- >> yeah. "don't stop believein'." >> yeah. >> i probably watched that myself like seven times. >> i saw the look of disappointment when i told a phillies fan when i was in philly and they played that song, i said, that's a san francisco band. they grew up in san francisco. there's aubrey huff! >> you know what? it looks like we're a couple of minutes from the players taking the stage. we're gonna take a break right now. [ son my parents have always lived in the states. until two years ago, when my dad transferred to istanbul. they settled in quickly. found their local deli.

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